Google Friend Connect In The Real WorldPatrick Chanezon, GoogleShivani York, TIME.comHenry Chan, TIME.comSrivaths Lakshmi, TIME.comPaul Berry, HuffingtonPostKhris Loux, JS-Kit

5/27/2009

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Google Friend Connect

• May 2008 Introducing Google Friend Connect– make your site social– long tail, no technical skills needed– copy and paste javascript– add OpenSocial applications

• February 2009 Social Bar– Even easier integration

• March 2009 Javascript and REST APIs– Allows deep customized integration in websites– server or client side integration– good fit for large websites with technical teams

“Oh I get by with a little help from my friends,Mmm I get high with a little help from my friends,Oh I'm gonna try with a little help from my friends”

The Beatles

Shivani York, TIME.com

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2009 TIME.com Social Lists

May 2009

Josh TyrangielManaging Editor, TIME.com

We have to be fast and we have to be smart, but we also want our users to have some fun. While we’re always mindful of TIME’s heritage as an authoritative news brand, there's nothing in our charter that says news can't be fun.

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TIME.com Daily Specials

TIME.com’s Daily Specials provide a trusted and entertaining perspective on relevant current events.

These interactive specials use photo and video galleries to engage the readers, and topics can range from important international events like the Pope visiting the Middle East) to light hearted topics like the Best iPhone Apps.

Recent Popular Daily Specials Pageviews• top 10 disastrous letterman interviews - 7.4mm• top 11 iphone applications - 5.9mm•10 things you can like about $4 gas - 4.3mm•10 essential sites - 3.0mm

Source: Omniture SiteCatalyst – Past 12 Months

Specials Traffic

176MM From January – April 2009

Challenge

How can we make these lists more fun and engaging?

Enter……Google / Friend Connect / Cloud Computing

TIME Social Lists Demo

Architecture

Javascript APIs

JSONP

HTML + JavaScript

Henry Chan, TIME.comFront end architecture

Srivaths Lakshmi, TIME.comBackend architecture

Paul Berry, HuffingtonPost

Khris Loux, JS-Kit

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Resources

• http://opensocial.org/

• Google Friend Connect documentation– http://code.google.com/apis/friendconnect/

• http://time.com/

• social lists open source project – http://code.google.com/p/social-list/

• delicious links: docs, demos, code, news, ...– http://delicious.com/chanezon/friendconnect

• http://jquery.com/

• Google Appengine documentation– http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/

• Google Social blog– http://googlesocialweb.blogspot.com/